Until retirement, I worked for many years in IT procurement. Although I have no personal stake in the decisions of the LAUSD, their plan to acquire an iPad for each Los Angeles student raised a few red flags.

The fight between the nation's largest theater chains and Walt Disney Studios over the upcoming release of "Iron Man 3" escalated on Thursday, when AMC Chief Executive Gerry Lopez took the studio to task for taking what he described as an unusually hard...

Arson investigators Monday evening were probing a blaze at a North Hollywood apartment building that left one person dead and four others injured.
The fire broke out Monday morning at the two-story structure in the 5100 block of Riverton Avenue and...

Record high temperatures were reached across Southern California on Monday as the region baked in summer-like weather.
Bob Hope Airport in Burbank topped out at 103 degrees, breaking a 100-degree record for the day that had stood since 1976, the ...

A man was taken into custody Tuesday night after he plowed his vehicle through a gate at Bob Hope Airport in Burbank.
The man rammed through Gate 120 and smashed into a walkway railing around 9:20 p.m., airport spokeswoman Lucy Burghdorf told the L.A....

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A Burbank man was arrested on suspicion of killing his 76-year-old mother, whose body was found in an alley wrapped in a blanket, police said Monday night.
Officers responded Monday morning to call of a possible woman down in the alley near the 4000 block of Victory Boulevard, according to the Los Angeles Times.
The victim was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics, Sgt. Darin Ryburn said.
He said the slaying was Burbank's first homicide of 2014. The cause of death is pending an autopsy by the...

The studios of KNBC in Burbank were evacuated Wednesday evening after a bomb threat, station officials said.
The station reported the threat on Twitter shortly after 7 p.m., according to the Los Angeles Times.
The threat "is being looked into by Burbank police," the station said. "Our news desk will be temporarily unavailable."
The studio is located at 3000 W. Alameda Ave.
By 7:43 p.m., the incident was cleared and the studio was resuming normal operations, the station said.
--Robert J. Lopez,...

A 34-year-old woman involved in an altercation with Los Angeles police that is now under investigation was identified Tuesday night as Michelle Jordan.
The Sunland resident was pulled over Aug. 21 on a cellphone violation and was arrested on suspicion of resisting arrest following an altercation with a 22-year Los Angeles Police Department veteran and a probationary officer, police said.
An email sent to Jordan's attorney Tuesday night was not returned.
The incident was captured by surveillance...

A man allegedly involved in a fatal shooting in North Hollywood was shot Thursday afternoon after leading Los Angeles police on a high-speed chase on the southbound 170 Freeway.
The incident began shortly after 4 p.m. when officers responded to a report of shots fired near Valerio Street and Tujunga Avenue in North Hollywood.
Two people were hit by gunfire, one fatally, the Los Angeles Police Department said.
Officers saw two men leaving the scene and pursued them onto the busy 170 Freeway. The...

Three people have died in two shootings that began when a gunman opened fire on a busy North Hollywood street and was later killed by officers on a freeway offramp, police said Thursday evening.
The gunfire broke out shortly after 4 p.m. near Valerio Street and Tujunga Avenue in North Hollywood.
Two people were hit when officers arrived, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. Both died, one at a hospital Thursday evening.
The suspect in the shooting fled in a vehicle as LAPD cruisers followed...

Los Angeles police are searching for several suspects in connection with the fatal shooting of a 38-year-old man outside a Sherman Oaks restaurant, authorities said Saturday.
Lt. Jim Gavin of the LAPD's Van Nuys station said the victim, Raul Lopez, was shot about 11:10 p.m. Friday in the 14500 block of Ventura Boulevard, just west of Van Nuys Boulevard.
According to police, Lopez was working inside the restaurant when he got into an argument with one of the suspects, who was accompanied by four other...

Spanish-language radio star Eduardo "Piolin" Sotelo, formerly based in Glendale, has filed a lawsuit against six former staff members who worked on his canceled Univision Radio program, claiming the group banded together to try to extort $4.9 million from him.
Sotelo claims to be a victim of a shake-down by former employees who allegedly demanded a big payday in exchange for taking their Univision workplace secrets "to the grave," the Los Angeles Times reported.
The suit seeks general damages and...